Beautiful People #12 // Friendship Edition

Welcome to our 12th (!!) edition of the Beautiful People writers linkup! YAY! We have a friendship-theme going this month in honour of National Friendship Day (August 2nd).

OH! And just a little note, but two of my blogging friends Emily and Alyssa have started up a Snazzy Snippets linkup! They give you a theme and you share small snippets of your writing that might fit. It is glorious. So if anyone is interested that, do pop over!

Oh oh and another teeny tiny note but…I have been endlessly swamped lately and haven’t gotten a chance to read everyone’s Beautiful People posts. I AM SORRY. So if, when you link up, you can pop by to a few people’s posts and leave some comment love that would be fabulous.

ANYWAY! LET US MOVE FORWARDS!

WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ABOUT?

If you’re new (greetings, mortal) this is a linkup hosted by Sky @ Further Up and Further in and I, for writers to answer questions about their books/characters. It’s designed to help you get to know your book better! (And also give us a sneak peek of your works-in-progresses.)

The linkup is open all month. Just a) grab the questions, b) answer them on your own blog, c) either link to our blogs or take the official button, and d) linkup below!

What is Beautiful People? Beautiful People is for writers. Every month, we post a list of 10 questions for you to answer about your characters. It’s designed to help you get to know your characters – their quirks, their personality, their flaws, and who they are.

Can I join Beautiful People anytime? Absolutely. It’s designed so you can jump in whenever new questions are posted. They’ll be posted at the beginning of the month, but you can join in at aaaany time.

Can I submit questions to Beautiful People? Yes! In fact, we encourage it. If you’d like to submit questions, you have two choices. Either leave a comment on Paper Fury or Further Up and Further In, or send us emails. Whichever way you choose, we’ll attempt to use your questions!

When is it? The meme is live on the 5th of every month! You can join in at any time during the month, just add your post-url to the linky. And don’t forget we’d love you to share the comment-love and visit some fellow linkers.

1. How long have they known each other, and how close are they? 2. What’s their earliest memory of being best friends? 3. Do they fight? How long do they typically fight for? 4. Are their personalities similar or do they compliment each other? 5. Who is the leader of their friendship (if anyone)? 6. Do have any secrets from each other? 7. How well do they know each other’s quirks and habits? 8. What kind of things do they like to do together? 9. Describe each character’s fashion style (use pictures if you’d like!) How are their styles different/similar? 10. How would their lives be different without each other?

NOTE: If the button doesn’t work for you then try just saving the image and uploading it your blog and then “linking” it like you would a sentence! It works. Trust me.

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hello writerlings! it is time for our monthly WRITING UPDATE CHAT! (yay! i love this part!) tell me what you’re working on! are you editing or drafting or plotting something nefariously wonderful??? ALSO: do you like writing about friends?!

Omg, GOOD. I’m not the only one thinking about NaNo. xDD It’s never too early, right?! AWK. I’m so so excited for NaNo because I’m 90% sure I’m going to Peter Pan or Dragon and there is literally no downside either way. I’m totally going to link up with Snazzy Snippets too!! SOON. And a few commenters said they want to do it too so YAY! i hope it gets a bit of exposure for your awesomeness too. *nods*

NOOOOO I MISSED OUT FIRST COMMENT!!!! *cries* *throws tantrum* :'( :'( :'( 🙁 🙁 AND I WAS ON SUCH A ROLL TOO. *weeps some more* AND YOU MENTIONED ME ON TWITTER AND EVERYTHING. I HAVE OFFICIALLY LOST MY CROWN NOW. I will try and win it back to tomorrow, Cait, I PROMISE. 😛

YOU WERE. BUT NOW YOU FAIL. OMG, FOR SHAME, ELLA. ;-))) Omg, do you have a twitter?!! I COULD NOT FIND YOU ON TWITTER. I was going to tag you but…yes. TELL ME WHOO YOU ARE ON TWITTER SO I MAY STALK FOLLOW YOU.

Good questions all. *nods* I’ve actually been super busy lately, so I’ve been cramming reading and writing in around the edges of all this craziness. Consequently, I’m actually still trying to get the second to last draft of my book ready for beta readers, and I’ve been /trying/ to outline some other books (trying, because I am a punster by nature). But I’m not too sad that my book has taken longer, because the way I had the ending felt off, so I’ve had time to figure out why and then (hopefully) correct it. How has your writing/editing been coming along?Liz Brooks recently posted…Book Review: THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins

OHHH. SLOW. I mean, I just finished 2 days ago (!!) but, gee, editing is so exhausting, right?! And I totally understand how life gets crazy and it’s just like steeealing moments to get edits in. *collapses in exhaustion*

Oh wow, Cait, you ask the really hard questions. My characters don’t have friends. (Or cookies, if you’re into the Siri thing.) Or at least, not friends which are really friends and I don’t think I can think of a single friendship which doesn’t fall apart at least once through the course of the novel. Okay, maybe half. So I decided to rebel and twist the topic slightly. That made writing this post MUCH faster and easier 😛

YES I DO. Well, Sky does too. BLAME SKY!! hehe All the friendships I write start off as hateships. It’s adorable. I ship them so hard and then someone probably gets stabbed and then they’re just buds for life. :’)

I’m totally joining in Snazzy Snippets!! I just have been uber lazy about sharing writing online bUT I WILL DEFINITELY SOON!!

I thought about having a go at this, because I’m all about that friendship vibe, but realised it might not work brilliantly for a lot of my projects. “How long have they been friends?” “Uhhh, bordering on 400 years except for a few instances where one or other of them was kind of … not in this world?”

I’m just about to go read your post now, so YAY! Thanks for joining in, Miriam. 😉 It means a lot! And, gawsh, 70% of the friendships I write involve one side hating the other but they’re still FRIENDS. Sort of. Kind of? Oh whatever. *ships friendships*

OH! I have a WIP*, so I can actually participate in Beautiful people for once! The excitement is UNREAL!!! *Note: my work in progress is very much in progress… I haven’t even worked out all of my characters yet. But this will help me, I’m sure!!! Except for the whole friendship thing… I mean, what is this friendship you talk of?* Beth x

So I accidentally skipped the last two beautiful people posts but hopefully I’ll get around to this one? I really like the Friendship theme 🙂Sophia recently posted…Top Ten Tuesday: Fairytale Retellings

AH YES FRIENDSHIP! I haven’t done a Beautiful People post in ages so I’m really looking forward to trying this one out! I think when it comes to the friendships I write they’re either very well thought-out or just assumed. For the most part my stories focus on friendship more than romance or even familial relationships I guess because of how versatile those relationships are. I mean friendship, in all its forms, is everywhere. But when it comes to writing about family or romance I balk cos familial relationships are very subtle I think, while romance is so easy to get all cliched, and when you don’t the romance seems dry. GAH. Relationships tho. Why do people have to interact with each other? Grrr. 😀Mawa Mahima recently posted…Ten Fairytale Retellings I Want to Read

*whispers* Um, neither have I…I mean, I host it and I NEVER LINK UP. Erk. Although there is a reason, just that my projects have had to stay secret-ish so yesss…awkward. Ah! I’m so glad your stories focus on friendship because those are exactly the kind of books I love to read. 😉 Romance is totally easy to get cliche, I hear ya. And difficult to write. GAh. I must prefer writing friendships.

I HAVEN’T WRITTEN A SINGLE WORD IN MONTHS. D; I blame school. 🙁 But I love this week’s topic! I always look for good friendships when I read books, and it’d be interesting to see the friendships being written about by my lovely blogger friends!Aimee @ Deadly Darlings recently posted…The Difference Between “Good” Books and “Great” Books

I’m totally doing this this month, and the questions are friendship, which is perfect. My book is still in the first draft stage, but I’m gonna start edits sometime soon (really) thank you, Cait!Shanti recently posted…Unpopular opinions tag

Yay! Friendship! I’m so excited about that subject right now because I just finished the second (which was kinda actually third) draft of my book that has a totally wonderful friendship in it. So, I might actually decide to do this one… 🙂 We’ll just have to see because right now my brain is refusing to work properly. I even skipped blogging for two days while I worked on editing which hardly ever happens. Shocking. Anyway. YAY for friendship!

YESSSS FOR FRIENDSHIP! I have a quite adorable friendship in my last WiP so I maybe might probably link up with them?! I DOn’T KNOW I’M INDECISIVE. XD hehe Agh, I hear ya with editing eating brains though. Mine feels like mush when I’m editing. -_-

I LOVE THIS MONTHS SUBJECT. THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE MEME IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE POST TO WRITE ALL MONTH!! ^-^ This month’s friendship theme is perfect! These themes were made for me! *-* I can’t wait to share with everyone more on Amelia and August’s friendship! 😀 I hope to see your Beautiful People post too!!Daisy @ A Bookish Flower recently posted…Interview with Katie M Stout // GIVEAWAY!

I’ve been thinking about how to make the friendship aspect stronger in my current draft so these are super helpful questions, Cait! My revisions are going epically slow because the time I spend thinking about what the scene needs pretty much takes forever and I end up with too few words written. *sigh* Anyway, hope you’re doing great with your writing/editing! 😀Hazel @ Stay Bookish recently posted…Girl Offline: What A Week of Social Media Silence Taught Me

Ack, I hear ya with slow revisions. I took a month to edit my book and I do everything at, like, SUPER SPEED so it was torturously tedious. Good luck with your revisions! *sends you copious amounts of virtual editing chocolate*

FRIENDSHIPPP. THE RIGHT KINDA SHIP. Now we’re asking the right questions. Sure, I have more ships than the years I’ve lived (um, which isn’t much tbh) but yayy *throws confetti* And I have WIP this time too! The happiness I feel in actually having something to work with makes me so happy XD Deffo doing thiss.Nirvana @ Quenching the Quill recently posted…Why Fairy Tales are Actually Horror Movies // also a quiz!

YES THIS IS IT THIS IS THE ONE THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE POST I NEED!

Gaaahhh how marvellous! Gosh I am v excited! ~jumps up and down~

PS Cait, I just read your end o’ July post and happy August etc, but what I really wanted to say IS … If by some mad spark of strange chance you DO NOT HAVE two betas then I AM SO WILLING, I AM LIKE WILLIAM WILLING ON INTERNATIONAL WILLING DAY and now the word willing has gone weird in my head and no longer looks real oh dear–

Anyway I know you will 99.7% definitely have two already (and also this comment has gotten so weird I have probably frightened you away) but IF NOT … ! ~bows~Emily @ Emily Etc. recently posted…What I’ve Done and What I’ve Learnt

OMG YAY!! I’M SO GLAD THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!! *hi fives for stories about friends*

*whispers* Your comments can’t frighten me, pffffft. And omg, I have asked two people already but TBH I WANT TO JUST LET EVERYONE READ IT BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU ALL THINK. But but but yes, I can’t have too many opinions or I will combust. *hangs head in shame* I’ll let you know if I need more betas tho, okay?!!

I adore reading about friends, so your current WIP sounds AMAZING TO ME. :’) Harry and Ron and Hermione are just too fabulous (although I’m reading bk 5 for the first time and gee, they bicker a lot?!)

This is my first time participating in Beautiful People and I really enjoyed answering these questions and getting to know my characters more!Farzy @ Books Keep Me Sane recently posted…Beautiful People #1: Friendship Edition

CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIT!!!! I want to hug you and Skye and give you cake and party punch! One of my favorite authors read my BP post! She asked for the link to my Wattpad!!!!! Thank you for hosting this feature!La La in the Library recently posted…BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE #TWO: August…

I’ve just started a MG first draft. The characters are a little too young for massive romance subplots (although I suppose I can probably get away with little hints) so it’s all about friendship. How are they similar made me crack up laughing – I have a set of best friends so different that, if they weren’t best friends, they probably wouldn’t be able to stand one another. 😉

I LOVE BOOKS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP. I just finished reading the most adorkable nerdy bookish MG story that is like so lodged in my heart. :’) I like friendship that leads into maaaaybe something more. 😉 FUN.

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